To date focused on manufacturing, want to 
   turn now to hospitals
         
     Management in hospitals
     Virginia Mason Case
    Nick Bloom and John Van Reenen, 591, 2012       2
 Management Matters in Healthcare
   Big picture question is does management matter in 
   healthcare – can better management save lives?
   Literature on management generally poor – case studies
   As a result very mixed views:
   • Some believe management drives everything (believers)
   • Others believe it doesn’t matter (skeptics)
   We wanted large samples of international data to investigate
    
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   Partners
   Academics
   Nick Bloom (Stanford)
   Christos Genakos (Cambridge)
   Rebecca Homkes (LSE)
   Renata Lemos (Cambridge)
   Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School)
   Daniela Scur (Toronto)
   John Van Reenen (LSE)
   Consultants
   Dennis Layton (McKinsey & Co)
   Stephen Dorgan (McKinsey & Co)
   John Dowdy (McKinsey & Co)
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  Agenda
           1 Measuring management practices in healthcare
           2 Describing management across hospitals
           3 “Drivers” of management practices
           4 Implications for policy makers and others
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